Prof Lewu started my career as a Genebank Research Assistant at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA). After a postdoctoral study at Fort Hare University, he joined the Department of Agriculture, University of Zululand, South Africa as a Lecturer in 2008, and was appointed acting HOD of the department in January 2009; till the end of May 2011. Prof Lewu joined the Cape Peninsula University of Technology as HOD of Agriculture Department in the Faculty of Applied Sciences in June 2011. Was appointed Associate Professor in 2014 and obtained C3 Established NRF Scholar of South Africa since 2014. In September 2018, he was appointed Professor in Plant Science at CPUT. He is a qualified Professional Natural Scientist (Pr. Sci. Nat) and has supervised and mentored masters and doctoral students. His research effort concentrates on the autecology, propagation of medicinal species. Also, he focuses on alternative cultivation protocols for field crops and horticultural species. He is an editorial member of many journals and serves as a reviewer and evaluator to the NRF and reviewer to several local and international journals. Prof Lewu examines many masters and doctoral theses for several universities and has published over thirty-five articles in several fields of plant, soil, and environmental sciences with a citation index of 9 on Scopus and 14 h-index on Google Scholar.
